Whole day

Arrival of participants

18:00-24:00

Optional dinner and informal evening meeting – “Orterstube” Seeschloss (castle) - to pay by participants directly

08:00-09:00

(optional) Breakfast

half day

Arrival of participants

12:00-13:00

(optional) Lunch

08:00-13:30

Registration

office -

BFW-Forestry Training Centre Ort

Johann Orth-Allee 16

4810 Gmunden

(FAST Ort)

Trouble shooting is handled by Forester Thomas Baschny - phone (+43) 6646112808

http://www.fastort.at/

13:30–14:30

Official opening & welcome at the GCM 2008

FAST Ort (grosser Saal – Neubau)

1. President of UEF Hakan Nystrand
2. President of Union of Austrian Foresters Fritz Ganster
3. Deputy head of Department of Forestry – Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Watermanagement Johannes Schima

http://www.european-foresters.org

http:///www.der-foerster.at

http://www.lebensministerium.at

14:30–15:30

"Wood and

Energy New

possibilities?"

What are the

European issues?

What are the

potentials of wood

biomass?)

keynote presen-

tation and short

discussion

FAST Ort (grosser Saal – Neubau)

Prof. Dr. Michael

Narodoslawsky

(University of Technology -

Graz; Styria/Austria)

16:00-22:00

Excursion to “Almtal”

(transport 60 min from Gmunden))

Austrian Foresters

Bus Mirlacher

Short field trip + “Echoblasen” – Almsee (a nice lake near Grünau)

Austrian Foresters

18:00-21:00

Restaurant “Jagasimmerl” (Almtal)

Dinner and

shooting (old traditional shooting stand for old rifles ”Kapselgewehre”)

Austrian Foresters

21:00-22:00-

Departure to FAST Ort

FAST Ort

Bus Mirlacher

22:00-open end

(optional)

FAST Ort (“TV Stüberl”) final chord

FAST Ort

Forester Thomas Baschny

07:00-09:00

Breakfast

09:00-10:30

Governing Council Meeting, Part I

FAST Ort (grosser Saal – Neubau)

GCM-delegates

http://www.european-foresters.org

10:30-11:00

Coffee break

11:00-12:30

Governing Council Meeting, Part II

FAST Ort (grosser Saal – Neubau)

GCM-delegates

http://www.european-foresters.org

12:30–14:00

Lunch

14:00-16:00

Governing Council Meeting, Part III

FAST Ort (grosser Saal – Neubau)

GCM-delegates

http://www.european-foresters.org

16:00–17:00

break

17:00–18:30

Excursion around the castle FAST Ort – visitation - exhibition “Upper Austria and Forest”

FAST Ort

surrounding area + “Seeschloss”

Wolfgang Jirikowski

r

19:00– open end

Dinner in the baroque ballroom ”landcastle FAST Ort”

- coloured green evening wiht traditional music (Rupert Burgstaller) and wine-testing Forester Thomas Baschny

07:30-08:30

Breakfast

09:00–18:00

Excursion to Lower Austria – region Amstetten (“Wood and Energie”) + lunch

Bus Mirlacher

Forester Fritz Ganster

19:00 .........

”baroque ballroom landcastle FAST Ort” – Invitation to aperitif

19:30 –open end

Invitation to Farewell Dinner offerd by the minister of agriculture, forestry, environment and watermanagement, Mr. Josef Pröll

6:30-8:30

Breakfast & Departure

half day ----------

Shuttle to airport Salzburg

Shuttle to railway station Gmunden

13:30-15:30

Thursday 16^th of October

City of Gmunden

• visitation

from FAST Ort

Forester Wolfgang Schweighofer

Whole day trip

(09:00 -1 6:00)

Friday 17^th of October

Excursion to Salzburg

from FAST Ort

Forester Wolfgang Schweighofer